Château de Montjeu, a well-preserved medieval fortress with a grim air, looms over the town of Broye, Saône-et-Loire, its gaze fixed on Autun. The extravagant man, Jean Jeannin, splurged 24,000 livres to claim it as his home in 1586. The structure, a central body surrounded by twin wings, featured four pavilions in each corner, the frames and corners adorned with gloomy stonework. The foreboding entrance, bathed in shadows cast by the menacing arch above, leads past the courtyard.
A testament to its knightly prowess, moats encircle the castle and gun ports puncture its rectangular turrets. The castle, recognized as a Monument historique since December 9, 1929, and officially classified since April 19, 1958, harbors a chapel smothered in intricate woodwork, chilling paintings in the south wing, a towering entrance, a grand fountain, and a coop for its winged snoops in the north wing. A titanic avenue divides the eastern garden, culminating in a circular pond that offers a breathtaking vista of woods and mountains.
The eastern garden is sectioned by ponds and edged with terraces blooming with trees. An eccentric restoration project ignited in the 1930s by M. Roger Louis Demon, the man who seized the castle in 1939.
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Written by Nicolo Ciampini
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